This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports Louisiana State University's research project to deepen the understanding of quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theories and its relationship to the geometry of spacetime. The project is composed of interconnected sub-projects that theoretically explore the entanglement structure in flat and curved spacetimes, investigate methods to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $254,999 in funding to support collaborative research at the City College of the City University of New York and Lehman College of the City University of New York. The research aims to advance the understanding of quantum entanglement, the relationship between gravity and space-time curvature, and their connections within quantum field theory and...
This $170,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports collaborative research by professors at the City College of the City University of New York (CCNY) and Lehman College of CUNY. The research project aims to advance the understanding of fundamental physical concepts such as quantum entanglement and the relationship between gravity and the curvature of space-time. Specific areas of focus include...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, with CFDA number 47.049 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program, provides $120,000 in funding to the University of Minnesota Duluth for a research project led by Professor Claire Zukowski. The project aims to advance the understanding of quantum gravity in a model approximating our known universe. Specifically, the research will apply quantum information theoretic tools to study new observables for de Sitter spacetime in...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $215,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program to the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. This 3-year grant, effective September 1, 2024, funds the research activities of Professors John Donoghue, Ben Heidenreich, and Lorenzo Sorbo. The research explores theoretical aspects of quantum gravity and how such theories may have left observable effects during the early evolution of the...
The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded a $270,000 Project Grant to Stanford University for the project "CQIS: QUANTUM CHAOS AND QUANTUM GRAVITY FROM ENTANGLEMENT." The three-year award runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024 and falls under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The funding will support research investigating quantum chaos and quantum gravity through entanglement. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Physics, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), provides $150,000 to fund the research activities of Professor Monica Pate at New York University from August 15, 2023 to July 31, 2026. The research aims to advance the understanding of quantum gravity by tailoring an extension of the holographic principle to the problem of quantum gravitational scattering. Key objectives include constraining...
This $415,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Lehigh University into string theory, gravity, and strongly coupled matter through June 2025. Funded under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), professors Sera Cremonini and Timm Wrase will conduct research to further understanding of string theory and address fundamental questions about basic interactions in nature and the cosmological history of the universe. Their work will explore...
This $299,996 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports fundamental mathematical research by a team at Utah State University. The project aims to develop new algebraic and geometric tools to formalize and advance the mathematical theory underlying quantum physics, particularly in low-dimensional topology and the theory of quantum invariants. The key products and...
This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to investigate methods for efficiently creating entanglement between multiple qubits for quantum computing. The project aims to develop new multi-qubit entangling gates that can reduce the complexity of quantum circuits and expand the practical applications of current quantum hardware, which is...